Japan Earthquake

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"Japanese premier Yoshihiko Noda reshuffles cabinet" www.independent.co.uk
by Pedro Jesus 1/13/2012 4:27:41 PM

@lillymunster For that to happen, the family of the deceased must allow it to be made public. It won't be easy. But it should, for the sake of clarity.
by Pedro Jesus 1/13/2012 4:29:10 PM

Cs-134, cs 137 registered in Slovenia. Plus some comments about the source of detected Iodine in Europe in November.

radioactive.eu.com
by VesaVA 1/13/2012 6:47:25 PM

@VesaVA Given the level of language used on that post, I wouldn't trust the information nor the comments. But the author of that post regarding iodine and caesium does have a point, although his language skills are not enough to make one. Would be worth confirming the sources.
by Pedro Jesus 1/13/2012 6:56:14 PM

S&P has just rated down france and announced to do the same with austria. austria ? wth ?
by Edano 1/13/2012 7:16:48 PM

@Edano RE: Austria, looks like Austrian banks have lots of loans to eastern Euro countries like Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary. A Nov Bloomberg article www.bloomberg.com An article from ft.com today mentions concerns about Austrian economic/financial ties Italy/Hungary www.ft.com The US and EU banking and financial world is a highly leveraged house of cards, all it takes is a little shaking to make a big mess.
by RonD 1/13/2012 7:43:16 PM

just some gossip: LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactors) and NASA research update www.e-catworld.com
by Cryptococcus 1/13/2012 7:45:26 PM

@VesaVA, fyi, the video that was featured at that link presenting itself as a weather report is a essentually a hoax (or possibly delusional) and part of an effort to terrorize people in North America into believing that catastrophic levels of of fallout from Fukushima are continuously inundating the US and Canada. The boilerplate modus operandi of these fear-mongers is deceptive conflation of detections of normal radon rain washout in N America with fallout from Fukushima. I don't know about the Slovenia claim below that video.
by Ian 1/13/2012 8:50:04 PM

@Edano If you want to point out some culprits of the world economic crisis, S&P along with Moody's and a few others are on top of the list. They should all go to jail.
by Pedro Jesus 1/13/2012 9:26:21 PM

I scrolled back a few days and didn't see this posted. My apologies if I missed it. Bed Bath and Beyond may have distributed radioactive tissueholders (contaminated metal). They contain man-made cobalt 60 apparently. www.huffingtonpost.com I wonder how much Fuku contaminated metal we'll see in the coming years (I realize this wasn't due to Fukushima). I remember a few people here speculating it could happen.
by momof3 1/13/2012 9:57:32 PM

Lol! Y'all gotta hear the Fuku song backgrounding this video : www.youtube.com epic!
by Ian 1/13/2012 11:42:44 PM

"Baseless Rumor" from an LDP Upper House Politician: Explosion in Fukushima I on January 9?

Satsuki Katayama is an LDP member of the Upper House of the Japanese Diet and a former career bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance ex-skf.blogspot.com
by Majj 1/14/2012 12:04:26 AM

greetings to all
by dean 1/14/2012 12:30:20 AM

Ohio gozaimasu. Hi @dean great to see you!
by bo 1/14/2012 12:34:27 AM

@dean @bo hi!
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 12:37:51 AM

J Environ Radioact. 2012 Jan 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Radioactivity from Fukushima Dai-ichi in air over Europe; part 2: what can it tell us about the accident?

It is shown which information can be extracted from the monitoring of radionuclides emitted from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and transported to Europe. In this part the focus will be on the analysis of the concentration ratios. While (131)I, (134)Cs and (137)Cs were reported by most stations, other detected radionuclides, reported by some, are (95)Nb, (129m)Te, (132)Te, (132)I, (136)Cs and (140)La. From their activity ratios a mean burn-up of 26.7 GWd/t of the fuel from which they originated is estimated. Based on these data, inventories of radionuclides present at the time of the accident are calculated. The caesium activity ratios indicate emissions from the core of unit 4 which had been unloaded into the fuel storage pool prior to the accident.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
by Ian 1/14/2012 12:43:14 AM

Another comment on the justice system in Japan, and how it is skewed against foreigners:

A few years ago two foreigners, one black, were in a store near Osaka. The storeowner came out and yelled at them screaming, "Get out of my store I hate black people!" The man brought charges against the store owner, since this was against the law.

In court, the storeowner stood up and admitted that he did what he was accused of, and then added that it was because, "I hate black people."

The judge then ruled the man innocent citing that he doubted that the foreigner spoke Japanese well enough to understand what had been said to him.

This man was not a tourist, he was a resident alien who had been working and living in Japan for years.
by bo 1/14/2012 12:45:10 AM

Suddenly the whole crew's on board! :)
by Ian 1/14/2012 12:47:14 AM

Post-Fukushima Radiation Mapped
spectrum.ieee.org
by bo 1/14/2012 12:48:38 AM

Notice that new study is one of at least two studies now that point a finger to emissions from Unit 4 nuclear-waste pool www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov . This certainly must affect theoretical models about the cause of the Unit 4 explosion, and thus that it probably isn't entirely a result of Unit-3 injected hydrogen.
by Ian 1/14/2012 12:50:58 AM

@Ian it's just like old times!
by bo 1/14/2012 12:54:55 AM

@Ian could the fallout tied to unit 4 have been from burning rods when the fuel pool boiled down?
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 12:58:03 AM

spectrum.ieee.org @bo, impressive map and somewhat unique, lacking that sideways 7-shaped hook. Like the old days, exactly! We can be thankful at least that since those days nothing further catastrophic has happened and hopefully the Fuku Daiichi campus will pass into an uneventful future.
by Ian via Spectrum.ieee.org 1/14/2012 12:58:21 AM

@lillymunster, I think Dean was impressed that those fuel rods and that lone assembly were indicative of some kind of fuel damage event. So it seems that might be presumed, though the vast majority of the fuel in the #4 pool looks pristine.
by Ian 1/14/2012 1:00:30 AM

Hello everyone! @Ian, the overflight heat maps of early last spring showed that the temps over the rpv of Unit 4 were greater than those over the sfp. brainmindinst.blogspot.com
This remains unexplained to the day.
by Peter 1/14/2012 1:02:04 AM

Does anyone know if the earthquake prediction app that people use in Japan is available for IOS? Or just Android?
by bo 1/14/2012 1:15:07 AM

Fukushima promotes safe Fukushima milk for school lunches: ex-skf.blogspot.com
by bo 1/14/2012 1:16:50 AM

Exhibit at University of Chicago on Japan earthquake recovery ceas.uchicago.edu
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 1:18:13 AM

@bo I believe both.
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 1:18:30 AM

@lilly ty

Any idea what the app is named?
by bo 1/14/2012 1:19:49 AM

@Peter, wow, I never knew that. Has that IR image been squared with the floor plan to be sure the hotspot lines up with the RPV? There sure is a very localized hotspot there, and then a more diffuse hot area like you'd expect for the pool. Too bad the two videos embedded there's have been either removed by the user or flagged down by NHK.
by Ian 1/14/2012 1:22:46 AM

Here's a collection of Fuku-IR imagery : gyldengrisgaard.dk
by Ian 1/14/2012 1:27:31 AM

@bo not sure, asked on twitter.
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 1:28:01 AM

@Ian , lilly experimented with overlays on the heat maps.
At one time we were pondering whether the air-inflated bladder seals of the gates in the fuel canal isolating the sfp from the rpv would withstand earthquake and explosion. Such leak might explain the recent water loss in the skimmer tank. Perhaps the rpv started leaking.
by Peter 1/14/2012 1:30:14 AM

@Peter, be sure to check out the IR-imagery link. I agree with your analysis and there are multiple other images there that corroborate great heat too far north to be attributed to the pool. This has gotta be a clue about what happened to Unit 4!
by Ian 1/14/2012 1:32:11 AM

Could RPV 4 have not been completely unloaded when the tsunami hit, and thus there's been a major "D'oh!" Tepco's been silently sitting on this whole time?
by Ian 1/14/2012 1:35:24 AM

Another radium hot spot found in Tokyo
Discovery of radium in the park Itabashi
January 14, 6:02 minutes
Radiation dose is 0.23 micro sievert per hour in the park in Itabashi, Tokyo, found a place higher than normal, was detected radioactive radium from the soil. Itabashi is off-limits to the scene around 2 meters square.
According to such Itabashi, 06 this month, "a high radiation dose was found in a park east of Itabashi Ward," is information that was received from residents were examined, the height of one meter of the north aisle of the baseball field Meanwhile, 0.23 micro sievert per hour was higher than normal radiation dose measurement. Therefore, Itabashi is removed to a depth of 25 cm of soil surrounding 下Garazu radiation dose, provided the fence was off limits to the scene around 2 meters square. In addition, we examined the soil is removed, 13, is that radioactive radium was detected. Ministry of Education, "The soil may be steeped in liquid radium from local conditions, from the fact that the limited extent of contamination, there is no fear of radiation damage" is explained. Itabashi is elsewhere in the park from 0.07 micro sievert 0.13 micro sievert, and be available as usual. Itabashi is Monday morning, and dug into the soil shall be removed down to the normal field dose. www3.nhk.or.jp
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 1:35:53 AM

@lilly just discovered that Apple has put an automatic quake alert notification into the Japanese iPhone operating system. Just read about it and turned it on for my phone. Will let you know how it works.
by bo 1/14/2012 1:38:04 AM

@Ian , thought that as well. There is just no info on such thing anywhere.
by Peter 1/14/2012 1:39:35 AM

@Ian there was some question about that, if unit 4 wasn't fully unloaded. We were able to find the schedule for the repair work. I can't remember if it was 4's schedule or the schedule used at one of the other units for the same repair and we estimated where they were. TEPCO described how many weeks for each phase and we know the date the outage started.
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 1:39:51 AM

At a party recently I met a physicist who was brought in by the American ambassador to be his personal advisor after the Fukushima incident. He said that the US govt. sent people from the DOE and the DOD but the ambassador felt he needed someone with no institutional affiliation to personally advise him. It seems he is mostly just assuring American residents that there is no danger at all.
by bo 1/14/2012 1:44:39 AM

@lillymunster , I recall a worker's tweet posted here not long ago which stated that had the earthquake happened a week later, the rpv would have been pumped empty for the shroud replacement and all water from the sfp would have flown into the rpv, leaving the fuel dry and precipitating an even greater catastrophe. I wish I had kept that tweet.
by Peter 1/14/2012 1:51:49 AM

@Peter I don't have it either but remember it.
by lillymunster 1/14/2012 1:55:06 AM

@lillymunster & Peter, this is an issue. That IR imagery is sold evidence, something was way too hot at the RVP. Asap I'm going to do a floorplan map over of the many IR images that show this to be the case.

by Ian 1/14/2012 1:56:01 AM